You seem to have forgotten (You seem to have forgotten ( or deliberately omitted? ) the fact that our Magnetosphere is diminishing allowing for these streaming particles of solar emissions to penetrate well into Earth's atmosphere.Perhaps we should all take a page from Professor James Tracy's book and become better stewards of veritas, and, to always challenge the entrenched powers who strive to keep us completely ignorant of what is actually happening in space as well as on Earth.
With the government's technology being in advance of 50 years than what is currently known they should have been able to see this connection ( between the Sun and Earth ) long ago, and , the premise that this is all "new" science really insults my intelligence.